March 2004
Paedophile jailed for multiple sexual charges against a 11 year old girl
Carroll was jailed for nine years in March 2004, when he was 33, for a string of serious sexual offences against an 11-year-old girl.
Carroll was put on trial in March 2004 at Lincoln Crown Court and was convicted of six charges of unlawful sexual intercourse and five of indecent assault, between June 2001 and May 2003.
All the offences related to the same victim.
The court heard that Carroll gave the girl alcohol, cannabis and cash after pressuring her to have sex with him.
Lincoln Crown Court was told that Carroll abused the girl for more than two years before she finally revealed her ordeal after being picked up by police in Leicester city centre.
Jailing him for nine years, Judge John Milmo QC told Carroll: “Your conduct was closely akin to rape. You only obtained her consent by threats and gifts of money, drink and cannabis.”
Carl Gaskell, defending Carroll, told the court his client remained insistent that he was innocent and regarded the verdicts as a grave miscarriage of justice.
